She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys.
Charles Caleb ColtonFaults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Charles Caleb ColtonTruth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
Charles Caleb Colton